Volume IV Chapter 36 Routine Operations
"This is really an unexpected start", Duan Xuan said in disbelief, "England played the last two games of the group stage"
"Before the game, everyone thought that they should be able to advance easily, but they didn't expect that in the opening less than five minutes, it was Ghana who scored first, and they were still a little careless"
After confirming that the goal was valid, Gyan rushed to the plastic track outside the stadium in ecstasy and danced an unknown dance in front of the Ghanaian fans in the stands.
It was their first goal in a tournament at the tournament, and with the knockout stage against England, the Ghanaian fans were naturally ecstatic as if they had seen the light of day.
Correspondingly, the white England fans who had been singing suddenly fell silent, and many people held their heads and looked at the field in disbelief, still unable to accept that they had conceded a goal like this.
"It's a bit of a surprise", Zhang Lu nodded and said, "But England don't have to worry, this is just the beginning, there is still a lot of time, and they still have a lot of hope of equalizing or even overtaking"
"Come on", the most anxious is Beckham, he keeps clapping on the sidelines to cheer up the players, Capello is depressed for a while but stands quietly on the sidelines.
An accident is an accident, there is no need to make any adjustments to the mess, not to mention that he also believes that Makqin can stabilize the situation.
The work against Ghana was done before the game, the team defended well, and he stressed patience and patience to the team many times in the dressing room!
Now is the time to test their patience, the team has to have a calm temperament to go far, and the cost of making mistakes at this time is always lighter than what will come later.
He stared at the field with burning eyes, just pressing his hands down and gesturing into the field, and he chose to trust the players' own ability to adjust, which is a process that a mature team must go through.
Coincidentally, Mackin made the same gesture as Capello, looking at Ghana, who was huddled in his own 40-meter area, still unhurriedly backward from outside the center circle.
He pressed down with both hands, beckoned for the ball, and kept directing the ball to dispatch left and right near the center circle, but he was not in a hurry to send it forward.
Just now he suddenly realized that Ghana had begun to treat them as heroes, and they were fighting back.
In the group stage, although the opponent was defensive, he was still able to boldly press out and fight with them in the midfield, but Ghana gave up directly.
Rajevaz is very pragmatic, the first thing he emphasized when he arrived in Ghana was the problem of defensive discipline, which is a common problem of African teams, so they have come all the way to this point thanks to solid defense and the individual ability of African players and a small range of cooperation.
Every game in the World Cup, it's really like a different style and different difficulty levels, you don't know what to expect!
But if you want to stay, you have to overcome it all!
"Mr. Ma is calm enough, England has been down in the midfield for a few minutes," Duan Xuan explained.
"Hmm", Zhang Lu nodded, and continued to analyze, "Today, the English players generally seem to be a little slow to enter the state, and their attention has not been fully concentrated, and Mr. Ma is right not to rush to attack"
Mackin was directing the team's operation in the midfield as always, and slowly, his composure began to stabilize the team's somewhat restless mentality of rushing to equalize, and he knew that Ghana were waiting for this, waiting for their mistakes to counterattack.
"Give it to me", Mack ran to the right and beckoned again, asking for the ball at Johnson's feet, not letting him hand it to Gerrard in front to attack, but to Barry in the back.
That scene, it's as if England is the leading side, and if you don't come to rob me, I will definitely not move forward!
Boateng and Gian finally got a little tired, and accelerated directly towards Barry, but he was just a transition, the ball didn't stop, and the ball came back to the feet of Macklin.
But at this time, Mackin had already run to the middle, facing the ball with his left foot directly out of a small arc close to the ground, bypassing the snatching Essien, and directly to the feet of Rooney, who cut inside.
The style of painting has changed!
"Rooney, he received a pass from Mark", Lineker suddenly raised his voice, more anxious than the player.
Essien's scramble caused an emptiness in Ghana's midfield, but today they played in a back five, which was expected with a centre-back coming straight out.
Wayne Rooney knocked his left foot and then slashed the ball with his right heel, and if Sarpe hadn't come out, he would have lifted his foot and shot from distance, but Garner certainly wouldn't have given him that opportunity easily.
'Wayne Rooney, keep playing, Salpe comes out, Rooney, hands to Frank Lampard, Essien, his club team-mate Essien is back in place, obviously he knows Lampard very well'
As soon as Frank Lampard received the ball and completed a half-turn to avoid Essien's tackle, the personnel in the midfield area were instantly dense, and he immediately flicked the outside of his foot and handed it to the oncoming Macklin.
England completed a succession of links in the middle to finally get Ghana's defence to take care of the other.
Just now, Rooney passed the ball directly into the penalty area, and Mackin didn't wait for Ghana's defense to come up, and directly faced the ball.
"Mark, lob the ball, nice ......," Lineker shouted, and it was clear from the picture that he saw the opportunity.
The Ghanaian player was deceived by Mackqin's eyes, he stared at the direction of Rooney's forward step, and also raised his left foot, but when he touched the ball, he shook his ankle and handed it directly in front of Crouch in the middle.
"Crouch, good ball, chance", I saw him leap out of his long legs between the two central defenders of Ghana, and the falling ball was a volley that fell to the ground!
"Crouch, shoot ......", Lineker roared as the falling ball raced towards goal, and the England fans in the stands all stood up and ready to raise their arms in cheers.
Ghana goalkeeper Kingston quickly jumped two steps forward and threw himself out with his eyes closed.
Then he heard a "bang", and the ball hit his face firmly and bounced again.
"Oh......, it was saved, and, Gerrard, the header ......", the two players in the air collided fiercely, it was Mensach and Gerrard, one wanted to make up for the empty goal, and the other wanted to clear the siege.
"Gerrard ......", Lineker's shout dragged out the end before he watched helplessly as the ball went over the crossbar.
"Oops", Capello regretfully lifted his glasses and exclaimed, "Good job", he loudly encouraged the player.
"Oh ......", "......", "GOGO, England", there was a huge sigh from the stands, and then immediately all the England fans came back to life.
"It's a pity, this attack is quite threatening", Wilson analyzed, "Rooney pulled the opposition central defender, Mark immediately found the gap, his threat ball is hell, of course, that is for the opponent"
Several of the England players up front sighed as the game came to a brief standstill as the Ghanaian goalkeeper couldn't get up for a while, and he was a bit stunned.
"That's it, we have to play the success rate", taking advantage of the gap between the opposing goalkeeper's healing, Mackin and his teammates got together, "their defensive formation prediction and overall linkage are not very good, we will definitely seize the opportunity"
Crouch nodded first, and glanced at the goal unwillingly, "What a shit luck, this can be blocked, phew"
"It's okay, they can't be so lucky every time", Makqin replied firmly, "Let's do it again"
"Hold your position, don't hear it, don't lose it easily", Rajevac couldn't sit still for a moment, ran to the sideline and shouted at the Ghana players.
This wave of attacks hit him with a sigh in his heart, but Boateng was immediately caught by Mackin when he lost his position, how could he not be frightened and afraid.
He needs the team to hold on to this one-goal advantage and try to wait until England make a mistake to score another goal, and that's all his script, the dark horse's script.
Goalkeeper Kingston took a moment to slow down the ball and then kicked it wide, but this time England's backfield didn't let Ghana get the ball easy, and Terry and Barry relayed a header and sent the ball to the wing.
Ashley Cole burst forward quickly with the ball, and Garner made a symbolic scramble in front, and after being avoided by England's three passes and two downs, he quickly returned to position and set up a defensive formation.
"Ghana are determined to defend to the end today", Lineker said depressedly, "especially after they scored a goal, it's really a bit different from the African team, but considering their manager is Serbian, it can be explained"
There is no way, football all over the world is now seriously Europeanized.
"Mark, beautiful long pass transfer, Rooney pulls the side", I saw that Macqin still cooperated with his teammates from the right side, and directly made an accurate long pass to find Rooney who pulled to the left side.
"Rooney, dribble on the side, Ashley Cole inserts on the side", Ghana's defensive focus immediately shifted back, Rooney made a feint, pretended to pass to Cole, directly outside the instep of the foot, dodged a gap and crossed directly.
The ball arced low and was pushed straight out by the Ghana defenders, and Cole stopped the ball on the sideline and continued to pass back to Rooney, again in the same position.
Macqin was cruising on the right side outside the big penalty area, and when he saw Gerrard cut inside to grab a point in the small penalty area, he immediately turned a corner and ran directly to the back of the ribs, and raised his hand towards Rooney.
'Rooney, get the ball again and see what he's going to do with it this time,' Lineker said.
He glanced up at the forbidden area, and then did the same thing, first pretending to break through to the bottom line, and then flicking back, and directly picking up a big foot, he had already seen Mackqin.
The ball made a high arc, flew directly over everyone's heads, and ran to the ribs of the far penalty area, where a white figure came out of the crowd and was inserting at high speed!
The ball spun directly to the bottom line, and Makqin estimated the landing point of the ball while running, and the result was that the pass was big!
"It's Mark", Lineker shouted, "the ball is a little bit stronger, Mark is sprinting, look at his ......, Mark is ......, pretty", he shouted.
I saw a white figure, when the ball was about to fly out of the bottom line, he took off in the air, and directly used a sideways volley hook action, relying on his feeling, finding the general direction, and accurately pumping his right foot on the ball that wanted to fly out of the bottom line.
To save an attack that may fail, one spirituality is enough!
With a "bang", he fell to the ground solidly, and then he heard a "boom", and the white England fans in the stands all cheered up and shouted wildly.
First, a white figure rushed over and pressed down on his body, roaring wildly, and then he felt that his body was getting heavier and heavier, layer upon layer.
Damn, this goal must have been scored, but can you tell me how it got it and who scored it?
"Goaaaaal......, Gerrard, Gerrard, England equaliser, Mark volleys in an inverted cross, Gerrard flicks his header to the goal, GoalGoalGoal......", Lineker frantically exclaimed, "Stroke of God, stroke of genius"
Beckham and the substitutes rushed to the sidelines, and Capello clenched his fist excitedly, knowing that they would score.
"They are not wrong, Mackin is a Beckenbauer-style superstar, he is everywhere on the field", Duan Xuan also shouted excitedly, "He has assists in four consecutive games!" This is God data, especially this is the World Cup! ”
"hat a goal ......", Wilson also shouted excitedly, "this is the most beautiful England played in 20 years, so beautiful, I love this England to death"
Even Joe Hart ran the entire pitch, jumping up and pressing on his teammates.
Roar......